I’ve got a bit of a difficult film writing assignment hanging over my head this week so rather than posting another horror film post, here’s a selection of recordings from the 1920′s and 1930′s featuring Aleister Crowley reciting occult poetry in both English as well as the Enochian language that Queen Elizabeth I’s court wizard claims to have transmitted from actual angels. Here’s the skinny on Aleister Crowley: The Great Beast Speaks…
20 minutes’ worth of devious recitations, transferred off the original wax cylinders. Wonderful piece of spoken wordedness, with the only drawback being that it’s a horribly crackly lo-fi recording (though faithfully bootlegged into the digital medium). It sounds spooky, and it’s definitely the Man, though it’s really hard to hear what he’s saying. Then what do am I supposed to expect, right; it was made in 1920. More poetry than ritual, I’m afraid, but you do get to hear Uncle Crowley sing in the last track.
This playlist seems to lineup pretty well:
1.
The Call of the First Aethyr (Enochian Version)
2.
The Call of the First Aethyr (English Version)
3.
The Call of the Second Aethyr (Enochian Version)
4.
The Call of the Second Aethyr (English Version)
5.
La Gitana
6.
The Pentagram
7.
One Soverign for the Woman
8.
The Poet
9.
At Sea
10.
The Fingernails
11.
The Titanic
12.
Hymn to the American People
13.
Excerpts from the Gnostic Mass
14.
Vive La French Republic
Now here’s the voice of The Beast…
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